US 12,351,784 B2
Cryogenic hop processing method
Blake Crosby, Lake Oswego, OR (US)
Assigned to Crosby Hop Farm, LLC, Woodburn, OR (US)
Filed by Crosby Hop Farm, LLC, Woodburn, OR (US)
Filed on May 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/310,431.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/384,921, filed on Nov. 23, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/336,879, filed on Apr. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0348825 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. C12C 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC C12C 3/06 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for cryogenically processing hops, the method comprising:
simultaneously cryogenically cooling a plurality of hop cones and fracturing each hop cone of the plurality of hop cones into respective fractured hop pieces using a cryogenic mixer, wherein fracturing each hop cone of the plurality of hop cones comprises reducing a particle size of vegetative matter within each hop cone;
without an intervening fracturing step, separating the fractured hop pieces such that the fractured hop pieces are divided into lupulin powder and the vegetative matter; and
compressing the lupulin powder into pellets.